Suspenders



Sept; 12, 1933. E. s W ET 1,926,750

SUSPENDERS Filed Dec. 21, 1932 l/vn SJVZX fiederz'clr D. Johnson,

Patented Sept. 12, 1933 Edwin S. Mix

SUSPENDERS and Frederick D. Johnson,

Rochester, N. Y., assignors to Hickok Manufacturing Company, New York Inc, a corporation of Application December 21, 1932 Serial No. 648,277

1 Claim.

The invention relates to improvements in suspenders.

The object of he present inventionis to provide simple, practical and efficient suspenders of comparatively inexpensive construction provided with an improved connection between the shoulder straps and the rise back adapted to permit a free sliding and swinging movement of the shoulder straps ,with respect to the rise back whereby the shoulder straps are adapted to readily adjust themselves to different Widths of shoulders and to different heights of backs of wearers, thereby affording an automatic fit of the suspenders without any tendency to twist the back straps or unduly strain or injure the connection between the back straps and the rise back. I

A further object of the invention is to provide suspenders having an all elastic rise back adapted to afford ample elasticity to the suspenders and greater freedom of action without the use of elastic webbing in the shoulder straps of the suspenders and capable of enabling shoulder straps made wholly of non-elastic material to be worn with perfect comfort, thereby lending the shoulder straps to style features that cannot be put in elastic shoulder straps because of the weave of elastic webbing.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in theaccompanying drawing and pointed out in the claim hereto appended, it being understood that various changes in the form, proportion and minor retails of construction, within the scope of the claim, may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantage of the invention.

In the drawingr Figure l is a front elevation of a pair of suspenders constructed in accordance with this invention. V v a Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail view of the connecting member and the adjacent portions of the shoulder straps and rise back showing the outer faces of he same. 7

Fig. 3 is a plan view of the connecting plate or member.

In the accompanying drawing in which is illustrated the preferred embodiment of the invention, the suspenders comprise in their construction shoulder straps 1, arise back 2, and a connecting plate or member 3 constructed of --metal or other suitable material and connecting V suspenders.

the shoulder straps with each other and withv the rise back;

The rise back is entirely elastic and consists of asingle piece of elastic webbing doubled or folded between its ends to form a pair of back straps and provided at the lower terminals of the back straps'with button holes i. The button holes dare preferably formed in tabs 5 of leather or other suitable material. In practice the rise back will be approximately 10 inches "in length as compared with the elasticportionof an ordinary pair of suspenders, which elastic portion is approximately 4 inches in length. In the suspenders of the present invention the elastic rise back comprises approximately 38% to of the suspenders while in the ordinary suspenders the elastic portions of the back straps form approximately 15% or 16% of theientire By providing the long all elastic rise back the suspenders are rendered sufiiciently elastic to enable shoulder straps made wholly of inelastic material to be worn with perfect comfort, thereby enabling style features to be applied to the shoulder straps that could not be put in the elastic shoulder straps because of the weave of the elastic webbing.

The shoulder straps whichhave Suspender ends 6 at their front terminals are provided at their rear ends with tapered loops or loop shaped tabs 7 of leather or other suitable material forming transverse openings 8 for the reception of armate guide bars or portions 9 of the connecting member 3. The curved guides 9 which are located at opposite sides of the connecting member are of a length greater than the width of the tapered loops 7 through which they pass, and the said loops 7 are adapted to slide on the curved guides to permit a swinging of the shoulder straps whereby the shoulder straps are adapted to adjust themselves automatically to the shoulders of the wearer and will fit shoulders of different widths and of different heights without causing any twisting of the shoulder straps at their points 'of adjustment to the connecting member and there is no liability of the connecting means being strained or injured as is often the case when the shoulder straps are connected with each other in a relatively fixed position and a strain placed on the shoulder straps tending to separate the same from such fixed position.

The connecting member 3 is of approximately elliptical form slightly flattened at the bottom and it is provided with approximately segmental side openings 10 diverging downwardly and forming the said curved guides 9 and an approxillO mately triangular central portion 11 about which the elastic webbing of the rise back is looped.

The doubled portion of the elastic webbing of the rise back is placed on the triangular central portion 11 at the inner face thereof and the two sides of the rise back are passed through a horizontal bottom slot 12 formed in the connecting member 3 at the flattened bottom peripheral portion of the same, as clearly illustrated in Fig. 3 of the drawing. The passing of the doubled portion of the elastic webbing of the rise back around the triangular portion 11 of the connecting member securely holds the elastic material in a fixed adjustment so that there is no liability of the elastic webbing slipping when one of the back straps is under strain and the other.

is not under tension.

The increased elasticity afforded by all elastic rise back and the greater freedom of movement resulting from the free swinging movement of the shoulder straps provide a pair of suspenders capable of adjusting themselves automati cally to the shape of the'body of the wearer and permitting greater freedom of action than suspenders of the ordinary construction and at the same time enabling the shoulder straps to be constructed entirely of non-elastic material.

What is claimed is:

Suspenders comprising shoulder straps providcd at. their rear ends with transverse opening of a single piece of elastic webbing doubled between its ends, the doubled portion forming a loop and being arranged on the tapered portion of the connecting member, and the side portions of the rise back being passed through the bottom horizontal slot'of the connecting member.

EDWIN S. MIX. FREDERICK D. JOHNSDN. 

